Eustache Charles d'Aoust

Eustache Charles d'Aoust (27 February 1763-2 July 1794) was a General of Division of the French Revolutionary Army during the French Revolutionary Wars, fighting on the front against Spain.

Biography
Eustache Charles d'Aoust was born on 27 February 1763 in Douai, Kingdom of France. In 1778 he joined the French Army at the age of fifteen without pay, but on 7 October 1792 he was promoted to Colonel at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, where it was easy for a non-commissioned officer to rise to a general in a year or so. He commanded forces on the front against Spain in the Pyrenees mountains of northern Spain and southern France and defended France against a Spanish invasion, but he was accused of treasons aggainst the French Republic and was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror in 1794.